We've gathered Psychotherapy Networkers most popular posts and arranged them here by topic.
Wisdom in Psychotherapy
Can We Afford It?
It wasn’t their research results or bestselling books that set apart Freud, Rogers, Minuchin, and Satir. They seemed to have a sense of what really mattered. Today have conceptions about clinical wisdom become obsolete?
How to Become a Lifelong Learner
Today’s Video: The Principles of Neuroplasticity
According to Michael Gelb, a world-renowned speaker on innovative approaches to enhanced learning and author of How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day, the key to being a lifelong learner is harnessing the power of neuroplasticity—the ability to make our minds adaptable—by seeking change and exercising the brain. The first step, Michael says, is understanding the relationship between attitude and outcome.
The Brain Science of Self-Deception
Understanding the Limits of Self-Awareness
It’s commonly suggested that depression results from seeing reality too clearly. Repression, denial, and humor grease the social wheels and lead us to put a positive spin on the behavior of those around us. This may be why humans have so few networks dedicated to self-insight and so many ways of distorting reality in their favor.
Managing Transference and Countertransference in Somatic Therapy
Does Body-Oriented Therapy Increase the Risk of Transference and Countertransference Responses?
Therapeutic skeptics still cite the possibility of stirring up intense transference and countertransference responses as a compelling reason not to use more body-oriented approaches. But therapists who work somatically maintain that transference and countertransference are no more a problem for highly trained and skilled body psychotherapists than for well-trained talk therapists.
Case Study: Overcoming the Fear of Losing Clients
Moving Past the Fear of Losing Clients is Necessary to be an Effective Couples Therapist
For the couple dropping out of therapy without having faced basic issues in their relationship, the stakes are much higher—more potentially damaging—than losing clients is for me.
The Mindful Body: Communicating With the Body in Therapy
How a Transition to Mindful Body-Focused Therapy Enriched a Formerly Talk-Only Practice
It’s an article of faith among many somatically-oriented practitioners that the body knows more, knows it more directly, and expresses it more honestly than does the often muddled, deceitful, and fearful mind.
Anxiety as a GPS
Danie Beaulieu On How to Make Panic An Ally
Most of our therapeutic interventions for anxiety center around managing over-blown feelings of fear. But what if we consider anxiety as a vital signal, alerting us that we are taking actions that do not align with who we truly are?
You’re Never Too Old to Change
Michael Gelb On The Most Effective Methods Of Change
Recognizing a habit that needs to change is one thing, but finding a way to get your stubborn mind to allow you to make that change is a completely separate challenge.
The In-Session Breakthrough Fantasy
Therapists have always loved stories about dramatic in-session breakthroughs. This kind of transformative moment can make the slow, painful slog of therapy feel worthwhile, and it’s a welcome counterbalance to the frustrations of a difficult, underpaid, underappreciated vocation.
